DrJohn Rodriguez Acosta

Biography
2023 - Present
Research Associate

‘Up-scaling Solar Hydrogen Production’

Department of Chemical Engineering | Faculty of Engineering

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

2022 - 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher

‘CITOBOT: Development and clinical validation of a portable system for cervical cancer screening’

Research Institute in Omic Sciences - iOMICAS

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali

Colombia

2021
- Lecturer

‘Course: Predictive Models’

School of Biochemical Engineering | Faculty of Engineering

Universidad ICESI

Colombia

- Lecturer

‘Course: Chemical Reactions In Industrial Processes’

School of Chemistry | Faculty of Natural Sciences

Universidad Santiago de Cali

Colombia

2013-2020
- PhD in Engineering (2013-2020)

‘Treatment of wastewaters containing cyanides by the Photo-Electro-Peroxoneprocess’

School of Chemical Engineering | Faculty of Engineering

Universidad del Valle

Colombia

- Internship (2017)

‘Extraction of cyanide compounds with supramolecular solvents’

Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry | Departamento de Quimica Analitica

Universidad de Cordoba

Spain

- Internship (2017)

‘Synthesis of nanoporous structures of TiO2 by anodization process and H2O2production by electrochemical reduction’

Research Centre in Engineering and Applied Sciences (CIICAp)

Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos

Mexico

- Internship (2015)

‘Impedance spectroscopy on solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (ssDSSC)’

Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux et des Electrolytes pour l’Energie (PCM2E)

Université de Tours

France

2012-2013
Researcher

‘Low orbit satellite shuttle’

Research Centre on Aerospace Technologies - CITAE

Military School of Aviation

Colombia

2009-2012


- Master in Engineering (2009-2012)

‘Heterogeneous Solar Photodegradation with TiO2 – P25 of Binary Mixtures of Chlorinated Compounds at Pilot Scale’

School of Chemical Engineering | Faculty of Engineering

Universidad del Valle

Colombia

- Lecturer (2009-2012)

‘Courses: Process Dynamics, Automatic process control, Chemical Engineering laboratories I, II, III, Numerical methods, Introduction to Chemical Engineering, Material balances, Energy balances, Cleaner production (Environmental management systems)’

School of Chemical Engineering | Faculty of Engineering

Universidad del Valle

Colombia

- Lecturer (2011-2012)

‘Courses: Management of chemical procedures and Operations of the industrial production’

Program of Industrial Engineering | Faculty of Engineering

Institución Universitaria Tecnológica de Comfacauca

Colombia

2003-2008
Bachelor in Chemical Engineering

‘Conceptual and Basic Engineering for the Hydrogen Production Process’

School of Chemical Engineering | Faculty of Engineering

Universidad del Valle

Colombia

Selected Publications
J.A. Villota-Zuleta, J.W. Rodríguez-Acosta, S.F. Castilla-Acevedo, N. Marriaga-Cabrales, F. Machuca-Martínez. Experimental data on the photoelectrochemical oxidation of phenol: Analysis of pH, potential and initial concentration. Data in Brief- Volume 24 (2019).https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.103949

S. Benhattab, R. Nakar, J.W. Rodriguez Acosta, N. Berton, J. Faure-Vincent, J. Bouclé, F. Tran Van, B. Schmaltz. Carbazole-based twin molecules as hole-transporting materials in dye sensitized solar cells (2018). Dyes and Pigments Journal - Volume 151 (2018) 238– 244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2017.12.050

J.W. Rodriguez-Acosta, M.A. Mueses, F. Machuca-Martínez. Mixing Rules Formulation for a Kinetic Model of the Langmuir-Hinshelwood Semipredictive Type Applied to the Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Degradation of Multicomponent Mixtures (2014). International Journal of Photoenergy - Volume 2014, Article ID 817538.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/817538